At Home

I am currently cooling my heels at home, battling to deal with being couped up in my office. Next trip should be around 1 November to Mauritius for some training on the software programme used on board the research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen. I'm looking forward to this trip since I have never been to Mauritius and it should be interesting. Just hope that we get some time off to explore. Watch this space!

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